A/N; I'm not sure I really like this chapter... but you'll have to see for yourselves.

Silent Love

Chapter 7

Hyoga awoke and he couldn't get back to sleep; it was boiling.

He looked over at Shun; he was asleep on the chair, he looked so peaceful.

He got up slowly, and gently pushed himself up off the bed. The room began to spin; he clung on to the bed for support. The room finally stopped turning, and he walked to the door, opening and closing it as quietly as he could. He walked down the hall, leaning on the walls as he went.

All he could think about was cooling down; the heat was unbearable.

He reached the front door and opened it, he walked out into the snow, the snow such a wonderful thing, cold and beautiful.

Now that he was outside, he decided that instead of diving into the snow he would go and visit his mother, the icy water would definitely cool him down and he really wanted to see his mother again...

Ikki could hear someone moving around, so he went to check it out. He came out of Shun's room, where he had been sleeping, to find the front door open. He grabbed his coat and went out after Hyoga. Of course Hyoga had the advantage of knowing where he was going, even in his sick state he could never forget where his mother was, where as Ikki was trying to follow Hyoga's almost non-existent cosmos.

Hyoga was almost there now. When he reached the spot, he rested a moment, kneeling on the ice.

When he had fully recovered from the long walk, he stood up. He focused all his energy, and concentrating very hard he punched the ice. Amazingly he got through, probably because he had been going down there everyday, so the ice was weaker than it usually was. He fell back gasping for breath, seeing stars in front of his eyes for a few minutes. When he at last got his breath back he stood up again, and fell into the water.

Ikki spotted the opening in the ice and saw a figure falling in. He ran to the hole, threw off his coat and dove in after him.

The water was freezing, he could barely move. Hyoga was below him swimming towards the wreck, but he seemed to be getting tired, as he was slowing down somewhat. Ikki tried to swim towards him, but it was difficult; he had never swum in water this cold before, he was used to hot temperatures having been trained on Death Queen Island. He moved as fast as he could towards the ice saint, he needed to get Hyoga out of there, and if he stopped moving he would probably freeze and not be able to get back to the surface. It looked like Hyoga had stopped moving all together now. Ikki reached him and wrapped an arm around his waist, and started to pull him back to the surface.

Hyoga could feel the grip on his waist, he slowly opened his eyes, everything was too blurry to see much, but he could see that a man was pulling him to the surface, wait... could it be... Isaac? Yes this was just the same... had he been given a second chance? Well, he wasn't going to let Isaac die... no, not this time, this time he would save his friend...

He held on to Isaac as if he would never let him go.

Ikki looked down in surprise, what was Hyoga doing? Well, whatever, he didn't have time for that right now, he had to focus on getting them out of there. He only hoped that there wouldn't be any currents...

Shun's eyes fluttered open, the cold had woken him up, he looked around the room for the source, his eyes widened.

"Hyoga?"

He got up off his chair and ran out of the room. The front door was open.

Hyoga frowned when they reached the surface, where were the currents? Why hadn't they come and swept them away?

Ikki jumped out of the whole in the ice, still holding Hyoga.

Hyoga looked up at Isaac, his vision wasn't any better yet.

"Isaac?" He whispered.

Ikki stared at him, Isaac? Wait, he remembered that name, yes Isaac was one of the Marine Shoguns, Kraken Isaac. Isaac had trained with Hyoga, yes he remembered Shun telling him that... he also said that Hyoga had thought that Isaac was dead... that he had drowned to save him... that must be why...

"I'm sorry Isaac..."

Ikki wasn't sure what to say, what could he say?

"I killed you..." A single tear trickled down his cheek as he closed his eyes.

Ikki brushed it away, letting his hand linger on Hyoga's soft skin. He loved Hyoga, he had loved him in silence, never showing any of his feelings, he was good at that. He could see how much Shun loved Hyoga, and he didn't want to take that away from him, he could also see that Hyoga returned those feelings, even if he didn't know it himself...

"Ikki!"

Ikki turned to see Shun running towards them, he was still quite far away though.

He sighed and reached up to his neck, he pulled on the chain he was wearing, it came off in his hand, and he put it round Hyoga's neck.

"There, now nothing connects us anymore..."

He had worn it under his shirt everyday since...

"You'll never know..."

He walked towards Shun, still carrying Hyoga in his arms.

"What... happened?" Asked an out-of-breath Shun.

"Hyoga decided to go for a swim..."

"But he's ok?" He asked, looking down at Hyoga.

"He will be now..."

Ikki gave Hyoga to Shun. He laughed at Shun's confused expression.

"Didn't you want to hold him?"

Shun blushed, "No I just..."

Ikki smiled again, he kissed his brother's forehead and then disappeared.

"What?" Shun sighed, "Why do you always do this Ikki?"

He looked down at Hyoga.

"Where did that come from?"

He touched the rosary (cross) around Hyoga's neck. He remembered now, Hyoga had put it on Ikki's grave when they thought he had died in the battle against Docrates.

"But why did he give it back to you now?" He paused, "I didn't even know he kept it..."

Hyoga's brow furrowed, "Kept what?" He asked drowsily.

"You're awake! Thank god. NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" He was startled at his own anger. "You scared me..." He said in a much quieter voice.

"I didn't want to do that..."

Shun sighed, "Let's get back to the house before you die of pneumonia,"

Hyoga had changed out of his wet clothes and was lying comfortably in the bed again, but he was cold now instead.

Shun was on the chair again.

"Now it's freezing," he complained.

He looked up at Shun hopefully.

Shun smiled, "Oh alright, but you better not attack me in the middle of the night if you suddenly get hot again," He said as he slid into the bed next to Hyoga.

Hyoga sniggered, "I won't do that," He snuggled up to Shun.

Shun hesitated, but then put his arm around Hyoga, turning on his side like Hyoga so that he could face him. He could feel Hyoga's breath on his neck.

"Hyoga?"

"Yes,"

"I... need to tell you something..."

To be continued...

A/N;

I think they're called shoguns aren't they? And I'm sure they called Hyoga's cross his rosary, well I think they did anyway...

I never saw Ikki giving the cross/rosary back to Hyoga, but maybe I missed an episode, but if I didn't, think about it, Ikki must have kept it, and why would he do that?

Of course it may have just magically reappeared around Hyoga's neck again without any explanation, which somethimes happens, Ikki might have given it back but we never saw it...

The only reason I ended it here is because I'm not sure if I want them to kiss or not... So I decided that I would let you decide instead! Because I could write this whole fic without them ever having any physical contact at all, or... well you can decide...

Of course I'm not actually sure if anyone will want to read anymore, I personally did not like this chapter very much, but anyway if anyone reads this please tell me what you think!

Juu- I'd just like to say that this was never going to be an Ikki/Hyoga fic so no worries!

A few of you said that the chapters were short, which is true, but I think this one is longer.

And thankyou to everyone who reviewed!! hehe, you are the only reason I update!!!

Written by Aqua